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Students use the gymnasium in Box Elder High School Wednesday. The Box Elder school district is considering putting a bond out to the voters to add on to Box Elder High School and the elementary school, including adding classrooms and buiding a new gym.
Some people among the small tax base who would pay for a proposed $3 million expansion to the Box Elder schools say being outnumbered by voters who wouldn't contribute to the project at all is "taxation without representation."
Kenneth Wilson, a Box Elder wheat farmer, said Thursday that the project's anticipated approval is "reverse discrimination."
Box Elder Superintendent Tom Peck said the school district is in a very unique situation because most of the voters live on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation and don't pay taxes into the school.
"If you live on the reservation, it doesn't affec...
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